Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Ruisu]

They really only had to optimize servers well and let some reliance be on the client rather than the servers and that would eliminate a lot of problems right there, since this Atomos event is perfect example, gathering a lot of people makes the game itself unresponsive whereas in FFXI, I can function just fine even with as little as 220 people and as much as 700 (besieged), the only delay I've ever experience was the first few months which they somehow sorted out.

Aye, but SE is pretty adamant against client-side anything because of botting or hacking. Which is a silly reason, but whatever.

Actually, they are not. It's all about your gear, your performance within your LS and how much time you spend farming items.

If it was about the community, people would play the game for fun, not as their job.

I played WoW for fun, of course I compared myself to other members in my guild, because I wanted to better myself. It was a challenge. I can play a video game for a challenge. RPGs in general are about gear. Better gear = better stats. Stats are what makes an RPG an RPG. Farming exists in all MMOs, maybe the genre isn't for you if you're so against it. This community sure does love it's overgeneralizations though.

[Reika]

Aye, but SE is pretty adamant against client-side anything because of botting or hacking. Which is a silly reason, but whatever.

They need to just deal with that stuff as it comes by, not make everything hard on everyone that cares. Most of the latency problems with XIV were because every action response was server dependant. This was talked about a long long time ago, why cant they get it through their heads?

[Elexia]

They need to just deal with that stuff as it comes by, not make everything hard on everyone that cares.

Specially since I can find at least 6 bots that will play this game for me atm :\

[Ruisu]

They need to just deal with that stuff as it comes by, not make everything hard on everyone that cares.

Which is the route Yoshi-P seems to be going, by accepting user made content and a client-side UI. Tanaka was very much against all of this because of bots. Hell, he was against an auction house because of fucking RMT.